Leontios Toumpouris (b. 1982, Nicosia, Cyprus) is an artist and educator based in Nicosia, Cyprus. He graduated from the Painting Department of the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2009 and earned an MLitt in Sculpture from the Glasgow School of Art in 2016.

Drawing from organic structures, traditions of representation, autobiography and discursive practices, Toumpouris invents observational strategies to make work that refers to correlations between matter, body and land. Narratological considerations are manifested as material connotations, reappearances, verbal responses, and negotiation of various modes of development and deep time. His work is configured in bodies and series spanning sculpture, site-responsive installations, text, sound, moving image, drawing and performative gestures.

Recent solo exhibitions: ARCO Madrid, eins gallery, IFEMA, Madrid, ES (2024, duo), With mountains, and stars, and particles, eins gallery, Limassol (2023), Briefly eternal, Art-o-rama, Marseille, FR (2022), Reconfiguring motions, Korai, Nicosia, CY (2022), Palimpsest of voices, Glasgow International, UK (2021, with Oakgrove Primary School).
Group exhibitions include: Splendore ô joie, joie, joie…, Fernet-Branca Foundation, Saint-Louis, FR, curated by Richard Neyroud (2024), No Self Control, Space52, Athens, GR, curated by Dinos Chatzirafailidis (2023), Under|mining, Kalavasos, CY, curated by Gabriel Koureas, Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio and George Lazoglou (2022).

Toumpouris has been awarded grants by: the Cultural Services of Cyprus’ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth (2022) Glasgow Connected Arts Network (2020), Creative Scotland (2020), the Eaton Fund (2018), the Hope Scott Trust (2017) and AG Leventis Foundation (2015) amongst others.

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1. Of Particular images, Review by Tommaso Ranfagni, a-n, 09.03.2019
2. Mention in article Οι τέχνες θα ανθίσουν και θα φέρουν κι άλλο by Apostolos Kouroupakis, Kathimerini, 27.05.2020
3. Mention in article Η Κύπρος και τα σπίτια της Τέχνης by Savvas Christodoulides, Hartis mag, 02.2021
4. Mention in article Glasgow International: a-n members in view by Jack Hutchinson, a-n, 10.06.2021
5. Review of Palimpsest of voices by Andrés Valtierra, Daily Lazy, 01.08.2021
6. Mention in article Όταν το παραδοσιακό χειροτέχνημα γίνεται σύγχρονο έργο τέχνης by Apostolos Kouroupakis, Kathimerini, 10.08.2022
7. Mention in article Art-o-rama: 10 Emerging artists to discover, The Steidz, 16.08.2022
8. Mention in article Foire d’art contemporain : Art-o-rama prend une nouvelle dimension en 2022, Gomet, 26.08.2022
9. Mention in article Kunstmesse Art-O-Rama in Marseille – Kleine Schätze am Meer, Monopol, 29.08.2022
10. Mention in article Ripartono le fiere d’arte. Il reportage da Art-o-rama a Marsiglia, Artribune, 30.08.2022
11. Mention in article Salons, un trio gagnant marseillais, Le quotidian de l’ arte, Fraeme, 31.08.2022
12. Μια διαλεκτική σχέση ύλης και τοπίου, Interview with Louiza Loui, Kathimerini, 13.10.2022